Christian Biere wrote:
> Hauke Fath wrote:
> > The machines offer KDE, Gnome, XFCE4 and your favourite window 
> > manager as environment via gdm, but the problem seems to concern all 
> > of them. As an example, when I log in to XFCE4, first opening of a 
> > popup menu from xfce4-panel takes 15 sec on an AMD 700 MHz / 384 MB 
> > RAM. During that time, system load is around 2, there are still > 100 
> > MB RAM unused, there is disk activity, and xfce4-panel is busy 
> > consuming cpu time. The next menu then appears instantaneously. 
> > Similar under Gnome: A Gnome terminal takes around 15 sec to appear, 
> > a KDE konsole 20 sec, and even an xterm needs 10 sec.
> 
> Have you traced them? Font loading time is very likely the issue. My
> apps seemingly spent most and too much time at that step as well. Albeit
> it's not as horrible as in your examples.

Another issue might be NLS. I see loads of these in traces of any Gtk+ app:

__stat30("/usr/pkg/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20-properties.mo", 0xbfbfe390) Err#2 ENOENT

I wonder why the heck is "it" trying to translate from English to English
any why doesn't it give up if the file doesn't exist? As far as I can see
it's only linked against the native "intl" library, so it might be to
blame.

-- 
Christian